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Pharaoh the Oppressor.


results of the latest explorations
and discoveries in Biblical lands
give most unexpected confirmation
of the literal truth of the Scriptural
historical narrative. Several months
ago the Blade published an article
describing the unrolling oft mum
my of RAMEsEs III, at the Bulaq
museum, located at Cairo, Egypt.
The May number of the Century
contains two illustrated articles, the
one describing the discovery of the
royal tomb, and the other discussing
the relations of this king with the
history of MOSES, as given in the
book of Exodus.
Incredible as it may seem, there
is no reasonable doubt of this being
the body of that thew king over
Egypt which knew not JOSEPH.
Exodus i. 81 To the devout mini
there is something marvellous in the
fact that we, to-day, can gaze upon
the actual body of king who reign
ed 5000 years ago, upon the face
of the man who saw MOSES when
he was little child. RAMEsEs was
the Pharaoh whose daughter adopt
ed the founding she discovered
floating among the bulrushed by the
banks of the Nile. ct is to be OBJ
served that the word pharaoh" was
an Egyptian title, equivalent to our
word king" and rot the proper
name of an individually Here are
the lips which uttered the severe
DEGREES upon the Israelites in bond
age here is the man in whose pres
ence MOSES and AARON worked wond-
rous miracles, and whose obduracy
brought upon his people the ten
plaques, ending with the death of
the firstborn. We have the won
derfully preserved bodily presence,
ola man older than the law given upon
Sinai, who filled the world with his
conquests thousand years before
Rome was founded and nearly 400
years before the birth Of Che Savior
at Bethlehem.
One point upon which there has
always existed great confusion has
been definitly settled by the discov-
cry of this mummy, By evidence
found within the tomb, it is ascer
tanned that RAMEsEs lived to the age
of nearly one hundred years. 1t fol-
lows then, from the periods given in
The book of Exodus, than RAAfEsEs's
reign covered the entire life of Moses
from his birth until the exodus,
that he was the oppresser of ISRAEL
and met his death in the miraculous
overwhelming of himself and his
arms in the Red Sea.
He was forty eight years old at
the time Moses went into indian,
where the latter remained, it will be
remembered, for 40 years and hence
it will be seen that the conjecture
of certain historians, who have here
totore endeavored to reconcile the
the chronology of the book Of Exc
dus with the statements of profane
historians and the testimony of in
criptions yet existing in Egypt, that
the exodus took place under Meme
PHTHA, the thirteenth son and i'm
mediate success of RAMEsEs, is er-
roneous.
The Importance of this discovery
to the Christian world can hardly
be overstated. In a rock-hewn
tomb, in a mountain side in the edge
of the desert opposite Thebes, were
found the body of the great RAMEsEs
his wife, his father, and other mem
bers of the royal family and the
high priests. Much new light is
shed on Egyptian history and the
inspired record, and the absolute
truth of the narrative embraced in
in the first fourteen chapters of the
book of Exodus is thus corroborat
ed in a most wonderful manner.